davidfcarr

Emilio,

Another programmer submitted a series of fixes that may address the problems you’ve experienced. So you might try the latest update.

I’m sorry I didn’t see your note about asking me to log in and check your setup. If you still need help with that you can contact me at [email protected] with the credentials.

Just checking: Are you on WordPress 3.0 or higher?

You seem to have some unique issues with the settings screen that I haven’t been able to reproduce.

With a query string in general, a ‘?’ starts the series of variables and ‘&’ is used for subsequent ones as in https://test.com/mypage/?var1=1&var2=two

The & is represented as & when encoded as an HTML entity.

You should be able to turn off all the filter functions on the_content except the ones in bold. Then check to see if you’ve lost anything that you didn’t want to tuurn off.

Alternative: I put out a 2.7.2 release that supports a query string parameter of minfilters=1 to turn off all but the bare essentials needed for paragraph formatting and WP text functions.

So you can use that with the repurposing of existing posts where the query string would be ?fb=tab&resize=1&minfilters=1

you can also tack this onto the end of your fbtab urls and see if that works better for you.

https://mydomain.com/fbtab/mytab/?minfilters=1

I did find a coding error on the Settings page. Download 2.7.1 for a fix.

The resize feature does not resize your images or any other content. It outputs a standard bit of Facebook JavaScript that resizes the iFrame and it really only applies to the height (allowing you to have content taller than 800 pixels). Using the URL query parameters to re-purpose an existing page or post only makes sense if that content does not include any images or divs that exceed the width limit.

The Click Here Online Marketing Special Offers tab appears to be outputting the correct JavaScript, and I’m not sure why you’re getting the vertical scroll bar. The horizontal one looks to be caused by the banner image being too wide. The FireFox error console says something about an image not downloading correctly on that page, but I’m not sure why that would affect script processing.

Version 2.7 also includes a Documentation screen on the admin menu.

Let me know if you’re still having trouble with settings not being saved in the current release. I’m working on consolidating the documentation, which is here but with some updates scattered around my blog:

https://www.carrcommunications.com/wordpress-plugins/facebook-tab-manager/

Here’s a summary on the particular feature you said was inadequately documented, which is relatively new.

To display an existing page in the fbtab template, you can add the query string ?fb=tab to the end of the page url. You can also turn on features by adding query parameters such as resize=1 (invoke the resizing JavaScript) new=1 (links should open in a new window) head=1 (execute wp_head) and footer=1 (execute wp_footer). Example:
https://www.carrcommunications.com/contact/davids-resume/?fb=tab&resize=1

The url should include the full path to the page, as in https://site.org/events/?cm=06&cy=2011

Do you have permalinks enabled on this site?

You can now designate an existing post or page as a Facebook tab by adding a query string parameter to the end of your post address, as in https://www.carrcommunications.com/contact/?fb=tab.

This makes the post or page display in the template I use for Facebook content. This is only workable if the content of your page flows nicely into the format. For example, if you have a 600-pixel wide image it’s not going to display without a scrollbar in the 520-pixel wide IFrame for a page tab.

Other query string parameters you can use are head=1 (execute wp_head actions) footer=1 (ditto for wp_footer) and resize=1 (include JavaScript to try to resize the iFrame to fit the content)

Please download the latest update and let me know if you’re still experiencing this problem.

I think maybe you’re being confused by the presence of a template.php file as part of the plugin distribution. You don’t actually install this as part of your theme. The plugin intercepts the normal template redirect process and substitutes this file dynamically for any posts of the type ‘fbtab’ – then exits. Your post winds up getting displayed by a very plain template with no navigation bar or sidebars. However, you can add CSS through the UI.

I have a bunch of working examples at https://www.facebook.com/carrcomm

I found I had to use a flush_rewrite_rules on initialization of the custom post type, at least for some users’ systems. In my RSVPMaker plugin, it’s an options preference to run it every time (if you’re having problems with 404 errors) or just when the plugin is first activated.

For reasons I don’t understand, svn apparently wasn’t uploading the files in the translations directory. I just put out an update (look for v 1.8) that should have those files.

It’s quite possible I don’t have it set up correctly, but I tried to follow the instructions on the WordPress site for creating a catalog file with POEdit. If you can help me get it into a usable state, I’ll be happy. Got a flurry of interest in translations when this first came out, then nothing (maybe because those files weren’t being distributed properly?)

My app is the corkscrew, absolutely.

John, no offense intended. I tried to make it clear that my familiarity with WPBook didn’t go any deeper than looking at the website for it. Sounds like what I cooked up is targeted at different uses anyway.